See Total Control’s Totally Bleak ‘Sweaty’ Video

From the Aussie post-punks' split with Thee Oh Sees

Total Control may be from Australia, but the post-punk posse are capable of an almost Nordic sense of pacing and breadth. While other outpourings from the Melbourne band have ranged from fast-paced hardcore to fuzzed-out minimal techno, the song “Sweaty” is as grand as a glacier, beginning with a pensive swarm of humming guitar notes as main man Dan Stewart drawls out cryptic poetry about hunger, souls, and crank. We believe him when he claims the latter “ain’t in [his] veins” — this is a slowly moving masterpiece that soon turns into a grinding squall of wasteland ambience. Though the video above offers a series of disconnected clips, it well captures the song’s bleak feel. “Sweaty” appears on Total Control’s 2012 split with Thee Oh Sees — the former’s half of the thing is streaming on Bandcamp, and it’s worth your time. The Oz destroyers come to the U.S. in May.

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